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A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
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Article

NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

18 August 2023
VIEW
Artist Richard Bell seated in his studio in front of one of his works: a coloured Indigenous map of Australia with the words PAYE THE RENT across it
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Deep Dive: You Can Go Now

Watch a filmed conversation with First Nations artist Richard Bell at the NFSA.
24 August 2023
A fire ant seen at close quarters on a branch
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Science and Innovation

Science Week stories about spray-on skin, conservation, biosecurity, drones and more.
14 August 2023
Three white children, two boys and a girl, laughing and smiling together on a boat at sea. The youngest boy and girl are wearing colourful jumpers while the older boy wears a denim jacket.
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1990s TV shows for tweens

Remember the boom in Australian science-fiction and fantasy TV for kids in the 1990s?
Wendy Hanna  / 
9 August 2023

Category

  • Television
  • Oral History
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Subject

  • Australian film
  • 1970s
  • preservation
  • 1960s
  • 1980s
  • 1930s
  • obituaries
  • 1950s
  • television
  • Australian music
  • Canberra
  • First Nations Australians
  • events
  • Arc cinema
  • Australian cinema
  • Australians & Hollywood
  • 1920s
  • archives
  • film
  • (-) Australian television

Date

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  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2012
  • 2010

May 2023

Ivan Hutchinson, Jim Murphy and Geoff Owen-Taylor in a studio, comically wrapping long strips of film around themselves.
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Two On The Aisle
Two On The Aisle: Australian TV's first movie review duo

A recent videotape discovery shines a spotlight on Australian TV's first movie review duo and their program, Two on the Aisle, which debuted in May 1973.

BY
 Simon Smith
4 May 2023
Television

Apr 2023

Front facade of an art deco style building with columns at the front and a sign saying National Film and Sound Archive.
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Kim Williams on Why We Bother
Kim Williams AM delivers the Rod Wallace Memorial Lecture 2022

The Friends of the NFSA present the inaugural Rod Wallace Lecture, delivered by Kim Williams AM.

26 April 2023

Jul 2022

A few houses in a cul-de-sac with a street sign in the foreground that says Ramsay St
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Farewell to Neighbours?
Farewell to Neighbours: A Writer's Perspective

Screenwriter Wendy Hanna reflects on the legacy of Australia's most iconic soap.

BY
 Wendy Hanna
26 July 2022
Television

Apr 2022

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Regional TV in Australia
Regional TV in Australia

People living in regional areas on the east coast of Australia began receiving television for the first time in late 1961 and throughout 1962.

BY
 Bronwyn Barnett
27 April 2022
Television

Mar 2022

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Vale Shane Warne
Vale Shane Warne

Commemorating the passing of Shane Warne, Australian cricketing legend, with some highlights from his career.

BY
 Jeff Wray
30 March 2022
Television

Feb 2022

A woman kneeling down to adjust a television, c1950s.
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Women's and Children's Programs
The Women Who Made Australian Television 4 – Women's and Children's Programs

In the fourth of a 5-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker reveals some of the women who shaped and redefined television content for women and children.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
28 February 2022
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Nov 2021

Four people are in a studio setting. Three of them sit behind a desk and the fourth stands. They are all looking at her. There is a film camera pointed at them that says ABC TV on the side.
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Calling the shots
The Women Who Made Australian Television 3 – Calling the Shots

In the third of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker celebrates some of the female producers and directors working in Australian television in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
29 November 2021
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Nov 2021

Journalist Jim Waley is wearing a suit and tie in this black and white photo. He is sitting in a studio with a backdrop showing a map of the world.
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Sunday
Sunday news, current affairs and arts program: 40th anniversary

For World Television Day 2021, the NFSA takes a close look at the news, current affairs and arts program Sunday on its 40th birthday.

BY
 Richard Vorobieff
13 November 2021
Photographs
Television

Nov 2021

A pile of question marks all layered on top of each other on the right hand side of the image. The rest of the surface the question marks are on is blank.
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Hypothetical
Geoffrey Robertson's Hypothetical on the Sunday program

In the second of a 2-part series, senior video preservation specialist Richard Vorobieff pays homage to the Sunday program's innovative Hypothetical segment on the show's 40th anniversary.

BY
 Richard Vorobieff
13 November 2021
Television

Nov 2021

Bert Newton surrounded by his TV crew
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Behind Bert
Behind Bert: Doug Ackerly Recalls Bert Newton

Guest writer Doug Ackerly recalls his experiences working with Bert Newton on Good Morning Australia.

BY
 Doug Ackerly
11 November 2021
Television

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